Happy birthday and many happy returns Michael Huynh, Geoggery Tir, Jeremy Dery and Anthony Hunter. Born on the same day, across the years. Along with John Canton (1718), John Ericsson (1803), George Liberace (1911), Milton Friedman (1912), Ted Baillieu (1953), Wesley Snipes (1962), J. K. Rowling (1965) and Emilia Fox (1974). On your day, Ka Hae Hawaii Day (Flag Day) in Hawaii; Feast day of Saint Ignatius of Loyola. 1703 – English writer Daniel Defoe was placed in a pillory for seditious libel after publishing a pamphlet politically satirising the High Church Tories. 1917 – First World War: The Battle of Passchendaele began near Ypres in West Flanders, Belgium, with the Allied Powers aiming to force German troops to withdraw from the Channel Ports. 1941 – The Holocaust: Under instructions from Adolf Hitler, Hermann Göring ordered SS General Reinhard Heydrich to handle the final solution of the Jewish question. 1975 – The Troubles: In a botched paramilitary attack, three members of the popular Miami Showband and two Ulster Volunteer Force gunmen were killed in County Down, Northern Ireland. 1991 – Soviet Special Purpose Police Unit troops killed seven Lithuanian customs officials in Medininkai in the most serious attack of their campaign against Lithuanian border posts. Avoid seditious libel that will get you pilloried. Also, avoid big battles. Try and solve problems without hurting people. Or you may become a joke. Sometimes, it might be best to turn a blind eye .. and just have fun. Matches 30 BC – Battle of Alexandria: Mark Antony achieves a minor victory over Octavians forces, but most of his army subsequently deserts, leading to his suicide. 781 – The oldest recorded eruption of Mount Fuji (Traditional Japanese date: July 6, 781). 1201 – Attempted usurpation of John Komnenos the Fat. 1423 – Hundred Years War: Battle of Cravant – the French army is defeated by the English at Cravant on the banks of the riverYonne. 1492 – The Jews are expelled from Spain when the Alhambra Decree takes effect. 1498 – On his third voyage to the Western Hemisphere, Christopher Columbus becomes the first European to discover the island ofTrinidad. 1588 – The Spanish Armada is spotted off the coast of England. 1655 – Russo-Polish War (1654–67): the Russian army enters the capital of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania, Vilnius, which it holds for six years. 1658 – Aurangzeb is proclaimed Moghul emperor of India. 1667 – Second Anglo-Dutch War: Treaty of Breda ends the conflict. 1703 – Daniel Defoe is placed in a pillory for the crime of seditious libel after publishing a politically satirical pamphlet, but is pelted with flowers. 1715 – A Spanish treasure fleet seven days after 12 ships left Havana, Cuba for Spain, 11 of them sink in a storm off the coast of Florida. A few centuries later, treasure is salvaged from these wrecks. 1763 – Odawa Chief Pontiacs forces defeat British troops at the Battle of Bloody Run during Pontiacs War. 1777 – The U.S. Second Continental Congress passes a resolution that the services of Gilbert du Motier be accepted, and that, in consideration of his zeal, illustrious family and connexions, he have the rank and commission of major-general of the United States. 1790 – The first U.S. patent is issued, to inventor Samuel Hopkins for a potash process. 1856 – Christchurch, New Zealand is chartered as a city. 1865 – The first narrow gauge mainline railway in the world opens at Grandchester, Queensland, Australia. 1913 – The Balkan States sign an armistice in Bucharest. 1919 – German national assembly adopts the Weimar Constitution, which comes into force on August 14. 1930 – The radio mystery program The Shadow airs for the first time. 1931 – New York, New York experimental television station W2XAB (now known as WCBS) begins broadcasts. 1932 – The NSDAP (Nazi Party) wins more than 38% of the vote in German elections. 1938 – Archaeologists discover engraved gold and silver plates from King Darius the Great in Persepolis. 1941 – The Holocaust: under instructions from Adolf Hitler, Nazi official Hermann Göring, orders SS General Reinhard Heydrich to submit to me as soon as possible a general plan of the administrative material and financial measures necessary for carrying out the desired Final Solution of the Jewish question. 1945 – Pierre Laval, the fugitive former leader of Vichy France, surrenders to Allied soldiers in Austria. 1948 – USS Nevada (BB-36) is sunk by an aerial torpedo after surviving hits from two atomic bombs (as part of post-war tests) and being used for target practice by three other ships. 1956 – Jim Laker becomes the first man to take all 10 wickets in a Test match innings as he returns figures of 10/53 in the Australian 2nd innings. This combined with his 9/37 in the first innings gave him match figures of 19/90 in the 4th Test at Old Trafford. 1961 – At Fenway Park in Boston, Massachusetts, the first All-Star Game tie in Major League Baseball history occurs when the game is stopped in the 9th inning because of rain. 1964 – Ranger program: Ranger 7 sends back the first close-up photographs of the moon, with images 1,000 times clearer than anything ever seen from earth-bound telescopes. 1970 – Black Tot Day: The last day of the officially sanctioned rum ration in the Royal Navy. 1971 – Apollo program: Apollo 15 astronauts become the first to ride in a lunar rover. 1972 – The Troubles: In Operation Motorman, the British Army re-takes the urban no-go areas of Northern Ireland. It is the biggest British military operation since the Suez Crisis of 1956, and the biggest in Ireland since the Irish War of Independence. Later that day, nine civilians are killed by car bombs in the village ofClaudy. 1991 – The United States and Soviet Union both sign the START I Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty, the first to reduce (with verification) both countries stockpiles. 1999 – Discovery Program: Lunar Prospector – NASA intentionally crashes the spacecraft into the Moon, thus ending its mission to detect frozen water on the moons surface. 2006 – Fidel Castro hands over power to brother Raúl Castro. 2007 – Operation Banner, the presence of the British Army in Northern Ireland, and the longest-running British Army operation ever, comes to an end. 2009 – Three members of the popular South Korean group TVXQ, (Kim Jaejoong, Kim Junsu, and Park Yoochun), filed lawsuit against their Korean managementS.M. Entertainment. 2012 – Michael Phelps breaks the record set in 1964 by Larisa Latynina for the greatest number of medals won at the Olympics. Hatches 1143 – Emperor Nijō of Japan (d. 1165) 1396 – Philip the Good, French son of John the Fearless (d. 1467) 1704 – Gabriel Cramer, Swiss mathematician (d. 1752) 1718 – John Canton, English physicist (d. 1772) 1724 – Noël François de Wailly, French lexicographer (d. 1801) 1796 – Jean-Gaspard Deburau, Czech-French actor and mime (d. 1846) 1800 – Friedrich Wöhler, German chemist (d. 1882) 1803 – John Ericsson, Swedish engineer, co-designed the Novelty Locomotive (d. 1889) 1847 – Ignacio Cervantes, Cuban pianist and composer (d. 1905) 1867 – S. S. Kresge, American businessman, founded Kmart (d. 1966) 1880 – Premchand, Indian author (d. 1936) 1886 – Fred Quimby, American animator and producer (d. 1965) 1892 – Herbert W. Armstrong, American evangelist and publisher, founded Worldwide Church of God (d. 1986) 1911 – George Liberace, American violinist (d. 1983) 1912 – Bill Brown, Australian cricketer (d. 2008) 1912 – Milton Friedman, American economist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2006) 1914 – Louis de Funès, French actor and screenwriter (d. 1983) 1918 – Frank Renouf, New Zealand businessman and financier (d. 1998) 1921 – Peter Benenson, English lawyer and activist, founded Amnesty International (d. 2005) 1929 – José Santamaría, Uruguayan footballer, coach, and manager 1939 – France Nuyen, French actress 1944 – Geraldine Chaplin, American actress 1947 – Richard Griffiths, English actor (d. 2013) 1953 – Ted Baillieu, Australian architect and politician, 46th Premier of Victoria 1962 – Wesley Snipes, American martial artist, actor, and producer 1964 – Jim Corr, Irish singer-songwriter and guitarist (The Corrs) 1965 – J. K. Rowling, English author 1966 – Tatsuya Ishihara, Japanese animator and director 1967 – Minako Honda, Japanese singer and actress (d. 2005) 1974 – Emilia Fox, English actress 1982 – Blessing Mahwire, Zimbabwean cricketer 1989 – Jessica Williams, American actress 1992 – Lizzy, South Korean singer, dancer, and actress (After School and Orange Caramel) 1998 – Rico Rodriguez, American actor Despatches 54 BC – Aurelia Cotta, Roman wife of Gaius Julius Caesar (b. 120 BC) 450 – Peter Chrysologus, Italian bishop and saint (b. 380) 1358 – Étienne Marcel, French rebel leader (b. 1302) 1508 – Naod, Ethiopian emperor (b. 1494) 1556 – Ignatius of Loyola, Spanish priest and theologian, founded the Society of Jesus (b. 1491) 1784 – Denis Diderot, French philosopher (b. 1713) 1886 – Franz Liszt, Hungarian pianist, composer, and conductor (b. 1811) 1943 – Hedley Verity, English cricketer (b. 1905) 1953 – Robert Taft, American politician (b. 1889)
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